Last Time … we followed Unmute’s info to an abandoned airstrip south of town: ambush! Led by cyborg mercenary Ironsides!
Questioned Ironsides,
We went for the former.
Direct approach? Sewers? 1 Overcome?
Or longer, stealthier, maybe more rewarding approach, but with 3 Overcomes.
Jalpari shapeshift to someone who belongs to the lab. Investigate and research who that target should be.
Joe as a research subject?
Rivet lurks in the shadows.
Jal centers herself, applies to overcoming … Principle of Mastery. Completely succeed!
Joe plays the obedient lab gorilla, carrying Rivet under one arm, a small car on the opposite shoulder.
Montage!
Joe recovering health, eating and drinking (many McD bags).
Driving from the airstrip in a compact car.
Rivet repairing self.
Rivet getting fake IDs from A Guy He Knows.
Subway station … out-of-the-way entrance Jal scoped out.
Follow someone, who then changes into lab garments.
Down elevator, out to a large laboratory. A lot of equipment … view down into a lower level …
Someone yells at Jal for bringing an experiment through a public entrance.
“Hey, you’re not one of mine! Get them!” Patchwork!
Upper level – Patchwork (calming pheremones), mooks. Locks to the lower levels with dangerous mutagen test subjects AND Roxi (Fractal).
1
- Joe - Roars and hurls call at the door. Twist - broke a steam duct over the door. Mass Hinder from Steam! -1. But the door is open!
- Rivet -Make a fan, blow steam at Patchwork to overcome pheremones. Major twist! Side effect: freaked-out reaction.
- Jal - attacking fire sprinklers to dowse Patchwork. Succeed with minor twist. She and a LabAss are Drenched -2, but get a Defend 4.
- Environment - skip
- Patchwork - Adds a patch! Pain of Perfection! Takes damage, but … all powers +1 die size.
- LabAss - They run at us! -2 attack, and a -1. Vs. Joe, 0; Vs. Rivet (rerdirct at LabAss on Jal); Vs. Jal, miss.
- Subjects - creep in.
2
- Enviro - Yellow (can’t use)
- Rivet - Principle, knives at Patchwork, but Freaked Out. Success! Can access Yellow.
- Joe - Joe picks up a LabAss and hits a Mutagen subject with it (taking it out).
- Jal - Mass freakout Presence attack. 4 … -2 on all bad guys.
- LabAss - Try to get rid of Freak-out status, assaul;ting Joe. No effect.
- Subjects - +1 on attacks, -2 on Freaked Out. Vs. Jal, hits for 1; Vs. Joe, hits for 5.
- Patchwork - upgrade! Bulks up! Muscle! Boost +3 chemical cocktail; attacks with a 3 vs Rivet who redirects to a mutagen; Defends 3.
3
- Enviro - Yellow.
- Subjects - swing at Jal. 3 dmg.
- Jal - Boost, glowing, looking a bit more alien… but just a tiny bit. Head down to Roxi
- Joe - Slam a subject, throws at Patchwork (taking out her Defend), dropping him to a d4.
- Rivet - If It Bleeds vs Patchwork. She reacts, reducing to 5, minus Freak Out to 2, reducing her Chemicals to +2.
- LabAss - 2 run down to hinder Jal, one assists, leading to a -1 Hinder. The 3rd, tranq Joe … so -2
- Patchwork - upgrading self, growing bull horns. Vs. Joe.
4
- Subject - Attacks Rivet. 4 damage, 2 redirected to patchwork.
- Enviro - check
- Joe - Rage! +2
- Jal - Principle of Mastery - harden fists to smash the pod Roxi is in. And starts to wake her!
- Rivet - Can boost to overcome a hinder … damage reduced by Freaked Out … reacts to absorb the hit into a bonus. Cancels Freaked Out, though.
- LabAss - one boosts the Subject. The other two slam Jal with her clipboards.
- Patchwork - Picks up Joe and throws him across the lab, doing damage to him.
5
- Environment - Yellow
- Subject - Attacks Rivet, boosted. 5, Rivet redirect 1 at Patchwork.
- Jal - Attacking the Pod again, with a LabAss. Roxi is freed! And the LabAss is taken out.
- Joe - Punches! Not great, but she still takes some.
- Rivet - If It Bleeds … on Patchwork. 7 damage, Hinder her absorbtion of damage.
- Patchwork - Patch to bulk up … boost +3.
- LabAss - tranq gun, -1 vs persistent +2 on Jal. Other boosts subject.
6
- Environment - Red Zone!!
- Subject - vs Rivet, 5 more, redirects at Patchwork
- Patchwork - Staunches her bleeding. Boosts self some more … bulks up +3 (even when hindered)
- Rivet - Knives thing … +3 bloodlust, 6 dmg on Patchwork, absorbs a bit.
- Joe - Big punch on Patchwork!
- LabAss - LabAss boosts the Subject. Other attacks Roxi, who is too woozy to avoid the hit.
- Jal - Boosts allies … shining inspiration +2
7
- Roxi - Move and Hinder LabAss
- Joe - Really big old punch
- Rivet - If It Bleeds … 10 dmg … hinder with a 3, -1 on boiling blod
- Jal - Smack her with warp space! Takes her out!!!
She’s down!
The test subject is subdued, the blinded labass also taken down.
Roxi is confused. “Becky asked us to help you out.”
Jal promises to try and protect her.
Tacos!
Rivet runs down the labass.
Contact the police.
Wraps up the mutagens mini-arc.
Bigger arc, want to find the mastermind that Patchwork was building her mutagens for.
Future location – the Central City Hotel?
(And, since we now have a collection, Agents of ASIST, Vol. 1, we can do redesigns of the characters within the character creation parameters.)